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Medicare's 44th B'day Rally, Cupcake Lobby Day, Kucinich's Single Payer Strategy

August 10, 2009

On July 30, 2009, The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, with HealthCare-Now, organized a Medicare's 44th Birthday Lobby and Rally Day in D.C. Thousands of single payer advocates came from around the country to deliver petitions, letters and cupcakes to their Representatives, asking their House and Senate members to co-sponsor Congress' single payer legislation. At a crowded House briefing on states' single payer efforts, Pennsylvania's Chuck Pennacchio spoke (among others), as did Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who proposed a concrete strategy for moving forward. The next day, on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a full House vote on single payer after the summer recess. To learn more about taking advantage of this historic occasion, visit pnhp.org or healthcare-now.org or guaranteedhealth4all.org


House Calls for Health Care Reform: Rodgers Forge, Baltimore, MD

July 12, 2009

On Saturday, July 11, 2009, a group of health care providers and advocates made house calls in Baltimore, Maryland to educate residents about single payer health reform and to collect petition signatures for Rep. John Sarbanes - requesting that he co-sponsor HR 676: National Health Care Act.
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DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS CALL FOR UN ELECTION OBSERVERS

October 30, 2008

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English

On October 30, 2008, representatives of a coalition of U.S. pro-democracy organizations petitioned the members of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations for international election observers for the upcoming U.S. presidential election...

Democracy Activists Call for UN Election Observers



Espanol

Una coalición de organizaciones basadas en los EEUU anunció su petición al Consejo Económico y Social de la Naciones Unidas, para que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas proporcione observadores electorales internacionales para la próxima elección presidencial....

Un Llamado a Observadores Electorales de la ONU



Francais

Une coalition d’organisations basées aux Etats Unis annonce le dépôt dune requête au Conseil Economique et Social de l’Organisation des Nations Unis demandant l’envoi d’observateurs électoraux pour les prochaines élections présidentielles....

Faire Appel aux Observateurs Internationaux



THE DAY HANK PAULSON LIED

October 2008


In October 2008, Congress passed Treasury Secretary (and former Goldman Sachs CEO) Henry Paulson's criminally irresponsible Wall Street Bailout $700 billion plus bill. This music video, sung by Margaret Flowers, is our response. For this video, we took inspiration from our country's rich tradition of protest folk singers such as Woodie Guthrie, Joan Baez, and, more recently, Tracy Chapman. Perhaps this tradition is relied upon too heavily in today's rallies and gatherings. Yet for our purposes, one woman singing her heart out - accompanied only by her guitar - made sense. We hope the message of the lyrics will ring out. We need to mine from all the arts to re-ignite peoples' passions for justice, fairness and common sense - through government policy - in the 21st century. Thank you to David Swanson, director of www.afterdowningstreet.org for re-writing the lyrics to "American Pie," and thank you to Don McLean, American composer and singer. Please visit www.myamericaproject.org to learn about Naomi Wolf's democracy building proposals. Also visit The Institute for Policy Studies and read their report called "A Sensible Plan for Recovery."


FOUR HUMOROUS HOLIDAY LOBBYING VIDEOS
FOR IMPEACHMENT, PEACE, AND CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY

December 13, 2007

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Thanks to video editor extraordinaire Margaret Flowers!!

Chesapeake Citizens: Holiday Lobbying: Two Chesapeake Carolers sing Accountability is Coming to Town in D.C.'s Union Station. They visit the office of their pro-war Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski (D) and deliver a stocking with coal and impeachment cookies. Mrs. Santa reads aloud a 'naughty, naughty' letter advising Senator Mikulski with detailed steps on how she might become the courageous anti-war leader Marylanders crave in 2008.

PLEASE SING ALONG! YOUTUBE HAS REMOVED THE AUDIO PORTION OF OUR YOUTUBE BUT YOU CAN STILL FOLLOW BY SINGING TO THE TUNE OF 'SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN'

"Oh you've had a bad year
Killing Iraqis and troops
Disobeying the law by not impeaching those crooks
Accountability is coming to town!

With your misguided laws stealing our treasure away
You've launched a cruel war on the middle class and poor
Accountability is coming to town!

We see right through your double speak
We know who's paid you what
We know you think you own our place
But you've really screwed it up!

Oh your laws are a joke
Our kids could do more
You're squandering national treasure on war
Accountability is coming to town!"

Chesapeake Citizens Sing Carols at the Capitol: Our Carolers sing Dashing to K Street/Accountability Blues and I'm Dreaming of an Impeachment outside the U.S. Capitol building with more than a dozen new friends from around the world.

 

Chesapeake Citizens: Impeachment Preserves the Constitution: Our Carolers perform a humorous skit on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, and visit the office of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) to deliver a strong "naughty, naughty" letter and a stocking with coal because he has not brought forth Articles of Impeachment against Cheney and Bush.

Chesapeake Citizens: Congress Baby: The Carolers deliver a thank you letter and a big tin of cookies to Representative and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) because Rep. Kucinich has been one member of Congress who has consistently voted on behalf of all Americans in every vote he has cast in Congress, and he has introduced Articles of Impeachment against Cheney. Then they sing Congress Baby (to the tune of 'Santa Baby') to his young staffers.